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The point is that it's a lot easier trying to figure out a way to keep everyone in check if you nuke Scry/Teleport. For example, in my campaign the party is/was on the run from some higher-level elves. Can the elves track them down eventually? Sure. Can they just teleport in and kill them...

The thing is that Scry/Teleport is sooooo EASY! The Bad Guy will at least have to work for his dinner if he can't use that particular dumb combo. I've also changed my campaign to make it that it's just about impossible to Scry someone that you don't have at least SOME connection with. None of...

Are there things in it which will make those of us who hate elves, hate them even more? You know, like elven sub-races that have every possible good set of ability characteristics for any class that some elf-lover might want to play . . . Crap about how Magic Flows In Their Veins Like It Does...

I don't need anything in the rules to protect such parties . . . if I change the rules to ban Scry/Teleport and/or change Commune :). Which I did! Actually, I haven't made any official changes to Commune yet, bcs the party can't cast it, and they don't even have a cleric right now, so it's not...

You're a pyromaniac in a field full of strawmen, Barsoom! For one, Monte and Piratecat and others are not saying "You can run a murder mystery in a high-level campaign", but "You can run an adventure which starts with a murder mystery in a high-level campaign . . . okay, the actual "mystery"...

I think that it works fine! This fighter is getting a LITTLE more than he normally would for just taking another level of fighter. Personally, I think that if he took a level of Barbarian, he'd be getting more -- boost to movement speed, ability to Rage, 4 skill points, and a BAB increase. Heck...

*BUMP* :D

Re the cross-class skills thing . . . I dont' know how to add this to the system in a sensible way, but it is a fact that using the system as-is, it's not very difficult at all to make a Tank that has exceptional mobility (i.e., speed), which doesn't quite tie into the image we have of tanks...

Wow, with the skill points, the buy comes even closer to 48 Hero points. Cool beans. The thing is that the 4CTF templates ARE, in essence, buying all of the powers individually. They're bundled up afterwards to make it easy on players and GMs, but at some level there is an individual buy...

I'm not telling you what you think, I'm just using the words that you used, bucky! Well, at least some of them. Words like "meant to be played", "urging", and "the". Seriously, you implied that I was "insisting and urging" that it be played differently . . . I'm not. I'm "insisting and urging"...

Re the first paragraph -- you might be able to work around Discern Lies, but Discern Lies + Detect Magic, or especially Discern Lies + Commune . . . I am highly skeptical :). Perhaps you want to share your brilliance? Re the second -- I didn't mean to imply that he would be stupid to change...

A 4CTF Ogre . . . Playing with making an Ogre using 4CTF. This is either a test of the CR system, or of 4CTF -- I'm not sure which :). I did this to test out what a Large Creature template might look like, and what problems might have to be overcome in making one. I'll start by noting that...

Okay, pick a number between 1 and 500. How many yes-no questions will you give me to determine the number you've picked? Oh, wait, I don't need to blow a Commune if I really don't want to. I have Zone of Truth and Discern Lies -- and I'll order every guard, servant, and staff member to not...

I'm playing with a template/large creature CR vs Hero test right now. Question: Is there a Superpower I missed that adds to a creature's BAB instead of just attack bonus (i.e., Heightened Accuracy)? I think there really needs to be one . . . maybe it costs 2 instead of one? 3? Actually, an...

So let's see what the PCs would do under Core Rules would do in this situation. I'm just doing this off the top of my head -- I'm sure that many out there will be able to improve on this. Assume that it's an 11th level party trying to hunt down this murderer, whom we'll call Chumley. Let's...

Poly Other has always been save-or-immobilize; I remember back in 1E it made a point to say that a brontosaurus polymorphed into an ant would most certainly not get killed by being stepped on by a man-size object, or even a bigger one. Some players have posted that you should polymorph...

Is he related to Lord Nosh (p. 142 of the DMG), or is Nosh The Mighty also a Lord, do you think?

Well, "nerfing" Commune would in fact be allowing a PC to earn an ability (seemingly), and then completely eliminating the PC's ability to use it, especially if the DM didn't have the foresight to tell the players that he was changing Commune ahead of time. Perhaps I'm reading too much into...

Well, of course you would. But would you have a hissy fit if the GM read these boards one day and realized just how stupid Whirlwind/Great Cleave/Bag o' Blind Kobolds is? And then decided to ban it? Let's assume that you didn't have Whirlwind/Great Cleave at that time; maybe you had one part...

I vote for "C". Supernatural abilities are magical abilities -- hell, they're canceled out in an Anti-Magic sphere, aren't they?